The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-10-12
PERFORMERS AND BOILERS.
A CLASS WITH WHOM THESE ARE
SYNONYMOUS TERMS.
How Certain Reiormers Have Heretofore
Treated Democratic Nominations.
New Orleans States,

Democrats OF 1884, and that the reformers
of 1884 were the constitutional, but unor-
ganized, kickers of the antecedent period.
In the ranks of this fact IN we recognize
many true and unfaltering Democrats, DEM
| ocrats who never have been, and never will
be, either in its victory or defeat, or whether
| shaping its policies their own way, Or over
ruled by the majority, serving in the ranks,
| unfaithful to their party or laggards in it's
cause. But it is nnquestionable that even
| the larger. part OF this best element of the re.
| form faction is composed Of those good and
true, but unfortunately constituted, men
whose minds have reversed the broad phil
osophy of Pope, that whatever is is right, "
and adopted the narrow and querulous creed,
are Ill q constant state of Feasibility and
perpetually prepared for kick against the
existing order in what they conceive to be
the cause OF honesty and patriotism.
The. other and larger element of the re-
form faction is deserving of less considera,-
ton. 1t is composed of the constitutional
Outs, who, at every defeat or disappoint-
ment they encounter, are so eager and i'm
patient that they cannot quietly await their
leadership and rewards, but il stantly uplift
The banner Of rebellion against the DEGREES
of the party convention, and either, like
Achilles, sulk in their tents OF worse still,
seek the qualification of their own ends aud
|
| in a bolt, assuming to themselves all the vir-
| tue, observation-disclosures and pa triotism OF the
State, while they denounce all others as the
enemies of Democracy and reform.
| What course this branch of the reformers
will pursue in the approaching State election.
after they shall have been, rs usual, defeated
in the convention, we shall not attempt to
predict. But We defy contradiction of the
assertion. that their invariable line of action
in the past has been to denounce the result
Of the party convention, to seek to discredit
it with the mass of the party, and, either
openly or secretly, seek the defeat OF the
regular nominees.
We make no charge here at which these
worthy patriots can take offence. The Plea
Wsne il their self-announced, and their own
proclaimed organ. That very able journal
| they invariably proclaim from the stump
their ideal of Democratic newspaper. 1.-The
guide. philosopher and friend. of the people;
and for years past this very Picaytne has, in
every canvass, after the. nominations were
made and the reform aspirants defeated, de-
nounced the conyention, and day in and day
out sought to demoraliZe and disorganize
the Democracy by proclalmins it to be a
patriotic duty to ignore and repudiate party
examinations: Indeed. with the exceptions
Of some feeble rltterances on national politics
and much violent. Pronunciation Of the State
Democratic administration, and the State
| Democratic leaders. the only political doc
trine this proclaimed organ Of the reformers
has vigorously and continuously advocated,
OF late years, has been the reputation of
party conventions and the patriotic duty of
boiling any and every regular nomination
that ls not entirely satisfactory to the Pic.
In the States of Sunday morning we re-
viewed the record of the PicdRtne OH this
| point throughout the Hunt bolt, of which it
was the organ as it Is now the organ of Gen.
Nichols nomination: We quoted from edi-
Journal the most unequiyocal and unblush-
ing denunciatlons Of party nominations and
the right and duty OF ignoring them. Those
who did ignore them were, indeed, it said,
very often the better Democrats for doing so.
The uttcrances We quoted from the Pic were
from articles, supporting the Hunt bolt, in
which remarkable movement Gov. Nichols
was If not the most conspicuous. at least,
with the exception OF Gov. Warmoth and his
Radical contingent. the most powerful fac
tor. And yet no one has ever heard that
Gov. Nichols dissented from. or rebuked, or
even deprecated these utterances of the Pic
dgtne SO destructive of all party discipline
and so well calculated, at one of the most
countered in more thar, half century. to
demoralize the Democratic party of Louisi-
ana. There is every reason, therefore, to as
sumo that, if Gov. Nichols vas not disposed
TO enunci&te such views himself, he did not
then, and does not now, regard them RS SUI
| GENTLY obnoxious to his ideas of Democracy
| to denouncc or repudiate them.
But the record of the Picdrtne, the accepted
and proclaimed organ of the reformers or
Democraiic nnlicv ia not az The StaIss CO ii
Sunday. confined to the HINT holt Tn The
winter of 1883 and spring of 1854 we hsda
heated contest in the Democratic party for n
candidate for Governor. The PicGynlae took
now Il sasnmed r. no the rinh tenno ani nnit
genuine repressntatiye Of trne Democracy
and reform. 1t opened vicious war of
abuse upon Coy. McEnery, who was one of
his administration' RI1t it's violence in be-
half Of what # called 'sreformn and lts vim
lent denunciations of Democratic Cover
nor and Democratic State administration,
presidential election when it's every deroesto.
~ utterance was seized nnon and used hv the
Kennblicans to ininre the Democratic N na,.tv
in The Nnrtb we've VENTILATED nv tLonson5s
Of Democrats throughout the State. and Gov
McFnerv Vas nom;;sated over Gov, N" Nici,oli.
bv most decided and enfbnaiastic maior;tv
Of the convention, But did the Picaartne. tI1;,
organ of the Reform Democracy and cham
pion of Gen. Nichols, after taking part in
the preliminary struggle, fall into line and
neee Did the organ of the Reformers, who
are now running Gov. Nichols. even remain
neutral in the contest between the Democrat
ic nominee for Governor and his Repnbican
onnonent9 Ttdid not. On the contrary. inst
AZ II went ontside Of the nartv a few months
later and supported bolter for Congress in
The FIRST District: lust as it few DAYS ago
assailed ihe action of the Democratic conven-
ton in the Sixth District, no sooner had Nc
Enerv been nominated than il rep,ldioted The
action Of The convention and. IN nm elabo-
rate and carefully prepared leader. called
unon ali Democrats to bolt the nOminatiOn.
It declared that boiling was the remedy for
ring rule: and the whole tenor and purpose
Of its attitude was to set up the policy Of
boiling az against the Democratic principle
of feaity to party nominations: to foster DO
liticaI pueriltaism. under which every denla-
cogue, spoils-seeker and rnle-or-rlin crank
may set himself up as an independent patriot
and leader, as against the tlme-hOnored,
wise and sound doctrine that, Tor the pro-
noslon " PGhnloolart prl,toip.es anu 'ne s.l
pennIy W ,,,s 4'ie MI ad ererS
nnrson.I ssnir. tinus at tho bidd;,,n of tha
renrepentatiyes OF the party in convention
assembled.
No more anti Democratic, no more de-
moralizing article, nor enc more repugnant,
offensive and obnoxious to Democracy, or